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09:00 EDT

Keynote: Rust, In Sickness & In Health
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 EDT
What does it actually mean to bet a company on a particular programming language? Seven years ago, Bryan Cantrill helped start Oxide Computer Company with Rust at the center of that bet, and spent the years since finding out the answer to this question.
In this talk, Bryan will share how his thinking about Rust has evolved, from the earliest infatuation to the honeymoon to the many ups and several downs of a long, deep relationship with the language, tested across bootloaders, an operating system, a hypervisor, a distributed storage system, a network operating system, compilers, and debuggers. Bryan will get into where he thinks Rust is strong, where it still has real gaps, and what he thinks the language and ecosystem need to prioritize as Rust moves further into systems’ future.

Speakers
avatar for Bryan Cantrill

Bryan Cantrill

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Oxide Computer
Bryan Cantrill is a software engineer who has spent three decades at the hardware/software interface. He is the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, which builds rack-scale computers for the post-cloud era. Prior to Oxide, he spent nearly a decade at Joyent, a cloud computing... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:00 - 09:30 EDT
Room 511 | Palais des Congrès de Montréal

09:30 EDT

Sponsored Lightning Talk - Microsoft: Rust (in production) Without Fear
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:30 - 09:35 EDT
Rust at Microsoft is on a super-accelerated trajectory nowadays. But what does it take to embrace Rust in the enterprise: what are the gaps, the systems we needed to reengineer for Rust, to make it fit into a world that has never seen the likes of crabs?
2026: Are we Rust yet? 
Speakers
avatar for Victor Ciura

Victor Ciura

Technical Lead for Rust Program @ Microsoft, Microsoft
Victor Ciura is a Principal Engineer on the Rust tooling team in Microsoft DevDiv, building the compiler toolchain and libraries needed for the broader 🦀 oxidation effort across the organization and open-source community.

Spent the last 25 years doing systems programming in C... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:30 - 09:35 EDT
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09:35 EDT

Sponsored Lightning Talk - Peeriot: Myrmic: An Open Rust Runtime for Distributed Edge Applications
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:35 - 09:40 EDT
Myrmic is an open-source runtime for distributed edge applications. It provides execution, messaging, state handling, and placement for application logic running across heterogeneous edge and embedded devices, without requiring a central cloud service in the control path.

This lightning talk introduces two core aspects of the system. First, Myrmic provides a complete runtime stack for building and coordinating distributed applications across the edge. Second, its dual-engine architecture separates portable, sandboxed application logic from device-specific native Rust code, allowing applications to span gateways and microcontrollers without hiding hardware capabilities behind a lowest-common-denominator abstraction.

In five minutes, attendees will get a compact view of the overall stack, the dual-engine design, the capabilities it enables, and the trade-offs it introduces. Myrmic is open source, and the implementation will be available after the session.
Speakers
avatar for Ralf Hüskes

Ralf Hüskes

CEO, Peeriot

Thursday September 10, 2026 09:35 - 09:40 EDT
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09:40 EDT

Project Update: The Safety-Critical Rust Consortium Two Years In
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:40 - 09:50 EDT
The Safety-Critical Rust Consortium (SCRC) was kicked off two years ago, amazingly enough, at RustConf 2024 right here in Montreal. In this talk Pete will recap (briskly!) the last two years of the SCRC, the great work that's been accomplished and the road that lies ahead for getting Rust into more planes, trains, and automobiles. Rust has earned respect in helping to improve the quality of software through its memory-, type-, and thread-safety without doubt. However, there do remain regulatory and compliance items which the SCRC is actively working together on to expand the usage of Rust to safety-critical domains and higher levels of safety-criticality.

Speakers
avatar for Pete LeVasseur

Pete LeVasseur

Staff Software Engineer, Woven by Toyota
Pete LeVasseur guides Rust adoption efforts at Woven by Toyota and its suitability for the highest levels of safety-criticality. He’s also lead of the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium, which has a broad base of support for making Rust a suitable first-language choice for safety-critical... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:40 - 09:50 EDT
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09:50 EDT

Sponsored Lightning Talk - Dash0: The Power of Profiling: How Fixing One Async Antipattern Shaved Off 30% of Our Write Latency
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:50 - 09:55 EDT
Dash0's Great Lakes database was overusing tokio::task::block_in_place, which accounted for a surprisingly large amount of both CPU usage and write latency. In this talk, Brennan will discuss how we pinpointed the issue using our Continuous Profiling product, how we fixed it, and what it means for other resource-conscious Rust users.
Speakers
avatar for Brennan Vincent

Brennan Vincent

Staff Software Engineer, Dash0
Brennan is a software engineer who has worked at Amazon, Meta, Materialize, Polar Signals and now Dash0. He is particularly interested in low-level systems like databases and kernels, and has focused on performance, efficiency and reliability throughout his career. He's also been... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:50 - 09:55 EDT
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09:55 EDT

Sponsored Lightning Talk: OneChronos - Rust in Finance
Thursday September 10, 2026 09:55 - 10:00 EDT
Using Rust to build the next generation of trading systems and ensure that they are fast, secure, and correct.
Speakers
avatar for Matt Plant

Matt Plant

Software Engineer, OneChronos

Thursday September 10, 2026 09:55 - 10:00 EDT
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10:00 EDT

Project Goals : Funding :: Chocolate : Peanut Butter
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:00 - 10:10 EDT
Project Goals and funding are two good things that are far better together. The Rust Foundation and the Rust Project are working together to build a sustainable pipeline that turns the growing demand for Rust into increasing funding, both for general maintenance and for important project goals (pun definitely intended). Niko will walk through the pieces already in place, from the Foundation's Maintainer Fund to the Maintainer-in-Residence program, and how the Project Goals program helps the whole community, funders and maintainers alike, align on priorities together.
Speakers
avatar for Nicholas Matsakis

Nicholas Matsakis

Senior Principal Engineer, AWS

Thursday September 10, 2026 10:00 - 10:10 EDT
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10:10 EDT

Sponsored Lightning Talk - Google: How We Replace Common C⁠ and C++ Libraries with Rust at Scale
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:10 - 10:15 EDT
Google depends on a lot of C and C++ libraries for fundamental tasks like image and audio decoding. Unfortunately, due to the nature of C and C++ these libraries are suspect to a large amount of memory safety vulnerabilities and are generally considered unsafe. To address this security risk, our team at Google moved all these common parsing and decoding libraries over to Rust alternatives. We use Crubit to expose a C++ interface for these libraries and then change the callsites to use the Rust alternative. We will talk about a wrapper for image-rs as an example for our efforts.
Speakers
avatar for Maria Pospelova

Maria Pospelova

Software Engineer, Google
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:10 - 10:15 EDT
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10:15 EDT

Sponsored Lightning Talk - Cognition AI: Making the Web Work Natively
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:15 - 10:20 EDT
Rust can run everywhere: on servers, desktops, phones, microcontrollers, and even web browsers. The popular web-sys and wasm-bindgen projects enable Rust to bind natively to web APIs, unlocking fullstack web applications written entirely in Rust. Developers get blazing fast performance, typesafe interfaces, and powerful compile time checks that improve reliability.
However, there’s a catch - UI frameworks and libraries written for the web only work on the web… until now. In this talk we’ll explore how Dioxus’ new wry-bindgen project unlocks the full ecosystem of web APIs on all platforms, making it easier than ever to build web, desktop, and mobile apps in Rust.
Speakers
avatar for Jonathan Kelley

Jonathan Kelley

Product Engineer, Cognition AI

Thursday September 10, 2026 10:15 - 10:20 EDT
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10:20 EDT

Verifying the Rust Standard Library: A Year of Proofs, Tools, and Winners
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:20 - 10:30 EDT
Over the past year, the Rust community did something remarkable: contributors from across industry, academia, and open source came together to formally verify the safety of the Rust standard library at a scale never attempted before. In this talk, Felipe Monteiro shares what the community has collectively achieved and announces the winners of the latest verification challenges. Highlights include over 11,000 functions now machine-proved free of key memory-safety violations, a new tool that generated more proof harnesses in weeks than manual effort produced in over a year, and a contribution that helped land function contracts as an experimental Rust language feature. He'll also show how the effort has grown into a tool-agnostic contest — now spanning verifiers such as Kani, VeriFast, ESBMC, and Flux — and walk through the new challenges open to the community today. Come celebrate the people who made it happen, and find out how to get involved.
Speakers
avatar for Felipe Monteiro

Felipe Monteiro

Senior Applied Scientist, Automated Reasoning Group, AWS
Felipe R. Monteiro is a Senior Applied Scientist at AWS, where he builds formal verification technology for C and Rust. He is a lead developer of the Kani Rust Verifier and a committee member of the Rust standard library verification project — the community effort to formally prove... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 10:20 - 10:30 EDT
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11:00 EDT

Making GPUs Feel Native in Rust
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:00 - 11:40 EDT
GPUs power AI, graphics, scientific computing, and an increasing share of modern software. Many projects focus on making GPU programming in Rust possible. This talk asks a different question: how do we make GPU programming feel native to Rust?

Christian Legnitto, founder and CEO of VectorWare, explores what it would take to make GPUs feel natural extension of the Rust language and ecosystem. The talk covers the challenges and design tradeoffs involved in bringing Rust's ownership model, type system, and abstractions to heterogeneous systems. It also looks at compiler architecture, intermediate representations (IRs), runtimes, and the fundamental differences between CPU and GPU execution.

Attendees will leave with a framework for thinking about how GPU and CPU software interact, an understanding of today's tradeoffs, and a vision for how Rust can make heterogeneous programming feel like ordinary systems programming.
Speakers
avatar for Christian Legnitto

Christian Legnitto

Founder, VectorWare
Christian Legnitto is the founder of VectorWare, the first GPU-native software company. Previously he worked at Apple, Mozilla, Facebook, and Robinhood.
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:00 - 11:40 EDT
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11:50 EDT

Rust Atomics in the Wild: Memory Ordering Design Patterns from Popular Crates
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:50 - 12:30 EDT
Modern Rust codebases use atomics for much more than simple shared-state coordination. When multiple atomics interact, subtle behaviors can appear that are easy to miss and can look arbitrary at first. With a closer view, a small set of recurring patterns shows up across many production systems, and those patterns can be applied deliberately to solve nuanced coordination problems when both correctness and performance matter.

This talk classifies these patterns by starting with a short refresher on Rust’s atomic memory model, then framing the problems being solved, describing the minimal structure of each pattern, and connecting it to real implementations in widely used Rust crates and runtimes

The five patterns covered are:
1. Publish and consume with Release and Acquire
2. Probe, Validate, Execute
3. SeqCst + Single Total Order
4. False Sharing
5. True Sharing

Attendees will see common pitfalls, what correctness argument each ordering supports, and where performance wins or losses typically come from. The goal is to make memory ordering choices reviewable, explainable, and repeatable.
Speakers
avatar for Martin Ombura Jr.

Martin Ombura Jr.

Senior Software Engineer, Scarlaria LLC
Martin Ombura Jr. is a Senior Backend Software Engineer who has worked with Rust since 2019, with a focus on building reliable systems. At GoDaddy, he contributed to the initial adoption of Rust in the backend stack. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 11:50 - 12:30 EDT
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13:45 EDT

Real-Time Rust in Robotics
Thursday September 10, 2026 13:45 - 14:25 EDT
Robots are complex interconnections of subsystems which use a varied mix of software. David will describe a typical robot's architecture and highlight the areas where Rust is making headway. He will present his team's experience with bringing Rust to the low-level sensors and actuators on a research robotics platform, showing how the use of bare-metal Rust improved the system's reliability and real-time performance. Finally, he will suggest how the Rust community can encourage further adoption of Rust in robotics and related applications.
Speakers
avatar for David Lawrence

David Lawrence

Roboticist, Robotics and AI Institute
David Lawrence is a roboticist at the Robotics and AI Institute in Cambridge, MA, USA, and was previously a senior principal electrical & firmware engineer at Markforged Inc. He received B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in mathematics, electrical engineering, and computer science from the... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 13:45 - 14:25 EDT
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14:35 EDT

Writing a Zero-Copy Database Parser from the Ground Up
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:35 - 15:15 EDT
Building a high-performance database proxy demands wire-speed parsing with minimal overhead. This talk walks through the design and implementation of a zero-copy streaming parser in Rust that parses database wire protocols incrementally from the first byte received, using a fixed-size ring buffer and arena-allocated borrow tracking to yield structured slices directly into the network buffer with no intermediate copies and constant memory regardless of payload size.

The talk covers the core abstraction: a trait-based streaming API that uses Rust's type system to bind borrowed slices to the underlying ring buffer at compile time, a ring buffer designed to allow concurrent immutable borrows of disjoint regions across async yields, and a borrow tracker that manages lifetimes as the buffer is refilled. Attendees will see how a small ring buffer can parse and inspect every byte of an arbitrarily large payload, how deterministic pattern matching eliminates backtracking on partial reads, and where carefully scoped unsafe makes the design sound.
Speakers
avatar for Devon Tietjen

Devon Tietjen

Co-Founder, CEO & CTO, Eden
Devon is the co-founder and CTO at Eden, where he leads the development of database and networking infrastructure products. Devon has been programming since 9, with an interest in embedded programming, distributed systems, algorithms, and protocols.
Thursday September 10, 2026 14:35 - 15:15 EDT
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15:45 EDT

Beyond the &: A Future for Native Smart Pointers in Rust
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:45 - 16:25 EDT
Rust is often described as a "library-first language," yet user-defined smart pointers are second-class compared to built-in types like &, &mut, and Box. These native types enjoy special privileges, like integration with the borrow checker, that ordinary library types like Arc, RefCell, and PyRef cannot currently replicate. These limitations make Rust much clunkier than it has to be. They also prevent powerful concepts like in-place initialization from being expressed safely.

This talk presents an update on the "Beyond the &" roadmap, an initiative to bridge these gaps. We explore how exposing the borrow checker's fundamental primitives allows us to generalize standard "superpowers" to user-defined types. We discuss plans to extend the reference model itself by investigating new types like &own and &uninit, which aim to solve long-standing issues with safe in-place construction.

By mapping out these primitives, we enable a future where pointer types like VolatilePtr and CppRef – as well as wrapper types like Cell and MaybeUninit – are as ergonomic to use as builtin types. This creates powerful new patterns for systems programming, interoperability, and abstraction.
Speakers
avatar for Tyler Mandry

Tyler Mandry

Staff Software Engineer, Google
Tyler co-leads the Rust Language Design team and works on Rust at Google, most recently focusing on language interop and async.
Thursday September 10, 2026 15:45 - 16:25 EDT
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16:35 EDT

Fireside Chat - Stewarding Rust & Python
Thursday September 10, 2026 16:35 - 17:20 EDT
What does it take to steward two of the world's most widely used programming languages — and what can Rust and Python learn from each other?
To close RustConf 2026, the executive leaders of the Rust Foundation and the Python Software Foundation sit down for a candid conversation on the challenges facing open source communities today: AI's impact on language ecosystems, cross-ecosystem interoperability, security priorities, governance lessons, and how to lead global communities in a rapidly changing world. 
Speakers
avatar for Dr. Rebecca Rumbul

Dr. Rebecca Rumbul

Executive Director, Rust Foundation
Rebecca is the Executive Director and CEO of the Rust Foundation. She holds a PhD in Politics and Governance, and has worked as a consultant and researcher with governments, parliaments and development agencies all over the world, advocating for openness and transparency, and developing... Read More →
avatar for Deb Nicholson

Deb Nicholson

Executive Director, Python Software Foundation
Deb Nicholson is a free software policy expert and a passionate community advocate. She is the Executive Director at the Python Software Foundation which serves as the non-profit steward of the Python programming language. She has previously served the open source ecosystem through... Read More →
Thursday September 10, 2026 16:35 - 17:20 EDT
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17:20 EDT

Closing Remarks
Thursday September 10, 2026 17:20 - 17:30 EDT

Thursday September 10, 2026 17:20 - 17:30 EDT
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